Disagree.

Here's the deal. Recommending someone, or helping someone doesn't get a person in the door. So, to take it a step further, nothing should help, nor hinder. You make it on your own merits. No need for the gay pilots association, or any other association to provide any assistance, leverage, interview, or forum to assist an applicant. The only way to remove all sexism, or whateverism, is to remove all favoritism.

Want to be treated with respect? Earn it! That means earn your job, earn your place. Honestly the NGPA has outlived it's usefulness and is simply performing a newer version of discrimination. Some call it reverse discrimination. Whatever.....Thinly veiled or not, people have opinions. Mine is this....Earn it!

The instant I hear how some smarty-pants pilot capitalized on his affiliation with the NGPA to get the interview/Job, I simply pick up the paper and push the ignore button. Respect isn't given, it's earned, so earn the right to be here.

Rant over. sorry about that, but just tired of all the reverse discrimination.